Megan Quinn writes of how Cuba survived peak oil:
At the Organipónico de Alamar, a neighborhood agriculture project, a workers’ collective runs a large urban farm, a produce market and a restaurant. Hand tools and human labor replace oil-driven machinery. Worm cultivation and composting create productive soil. Drip irrigation conserves water, and the diverse, multi-hued produce provides the community with a rainbow of healthy foods.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba’s oil supply was cut in half, but contrary to the predictions of many peak oil theorists, Cubans have been able to cope.
It hasn’t been easy for them — the average Cuban, for example, has lost 30 pounds since the sudden decline in their oil supply — but it has been survivable, with all the nation’s social and political structures remaining intact.
Ken Dyck 